We all live on this little island and try to do so much to bring awareness and education to the public about keeping our oceans, beaches and forests clean and safe for everyone. So brah, why do you feel it’s okay to throw you glass beer bottles out the car windows, smashing them and causing […]

A big thank you to the neighbor who correctly reclassified the heap of junk left on the road, which had originally been labeled “FREE,” to “TRASH.” Those bad neighbors, like so many others, go to so much trouble to appear to be donating their crap when they are just dumping it. Maybe take some of that […]

[UPDATE: The item below on the April 15 hit-and-run fatality has been updated with additional details from the MPD] Normally we’re content to leave highway collisions and traffic updates to the myriad other news sites and papers around Maui (and Hawaii) that cover such things, but lately I’ve noticed my email inbox stuffed with Maui […]

LAHAINA MARKET PLACE CUTS DOWN ITS TREES And now we’re going to talk a bit about trees–or rather, the act of going up to very old, very beautiful trees and chain-sawing them into sawdust and toothpicks. This is happening, or by this point has happened, at the Lahaina Market Place on Front Street. That little […]

Last week, the not very romantically named Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) saw fit to crown Maui the preeminent of 10 “lesser-known (but just as engaging!) wedding proposal sites in the U.S. and Canada.” “There’s nothing better than warm weather to beat the winter cold, and the Road to Hana in Maui offers lush […]

ANOTHER DOOMSDAY FAKEOUT As I write these words, the East Coast is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy–one of the largest storms ever recorded in the North Atlantic. There was severe flooding in New York and Atlantic City. The storm’s total death toll in the Caribbean and U.S. is nearly 100, and it’s still affecting an […]

More than half of drivers in Hawaii believe that people on the road are not as courteous as they were just five years ago, reports a new survey commissioned by First Insurance Company. What’s more, reported the Associated Press on June 26, a mere 18 percent of drivers still use the venerable shaka to acknowledge […]

This is for the ass who sideswiped me as I was riding my bike one recent morning on Dairy Road in Kahului. You were leaving the parking lot next to McDonald’s with your phone in your hand (and clearly didn’t even look for people on bikes, like me) as you made your turn onto the […]